Color Selector

The Select Color dialog is a very
flexible tool that may be used to insert numeric values for colors
in four different formats: Decimal, Hex, HTML, and RGB (red, green,
blue).

The Selector Color dialog includes
the following items:

Syringe Tool

The
syringe in the upper left of the Color Selector dialog is a tool that
may be used to import colors to the dialog. Clicking on the
syringe and dragging it over any item will import its color values
to the dialog.

Color Block

The Color Block is in the upper
lefthand corner of the Color Selector dialog. Clicking
on this presents the standard Windows Color dialog where basic colors
may be selected or custom colors may be defined. Whether
a standard color is selected in the Color dialog or a custom color
is created, whatever color is shown in the "Color/Solid"
field will be the color shown if you press the OK button in the Color
dialog.

RRGGBB Text Field

If you are familiar with the standard
RGB color codes you may directly specify a color by typing in this
field. The specified color should be immediately reflected
in the Color Block. If you are defining a color in HEX
format there should be six alphanumeric characters used to do so (e.g.,
F08FFF).

Color Selection Dropdown

A list of 72 default colors used
for web development is provided in the dropdown and selecting one
of these will automatically change the value reflected in the HEX/
RRGGBB field. This can be very helpful in quickly selecting
colors for development.

RGB Text Fields

Beside the Red, Green, and Blue
color blocks are text fields where values for these colors (from 0
through 255) may be directly entered. The up/down arrows
by each text field may also be used to modify the color values. To
increase/decrease all three color values simultaneously use the "-"
and "+" buttons below the RGB text fields.

Users may define custom colors
using these controls and name them by entering the name in the Named Colors combobox. Custom colors may
be removed by selecting the color name in the Named
Colors combobox and pressing the Delete key (on the keyboard)
and then pressing the Save Color button.
Any color saved with an empty name will be removed from the
color list.

Nearest color

The Nearest Color button will
select the closest color to the custom values currently defined from
the default colors listed in the dropdown. The Color Block
will change to reflect this color as will the Color field value in the Format section and the color name listed in the dropdown.

Swap red/blue

Pressing this button will switch
the values for Red and Blue for the currently specified color. This
change is reflected throughout the color selector.

Output

Users may select whether they
want the color value to be inserted in either Decimal, Hex, HTML,
or RGB format using the appropriate buttons. Pressing the Editor button will send
the output to the active edit window and pressing the Clipboard button will
send the output to the active clipboard. If the Use quotes option is
selected the value will be inserted in the desired format and enclosed
in double quotes. (Please note that the RGB value is never
inserted in double quotes as this is generally used for C macros and
this behavior would not be appropriate in this context.)

Display
web colors only

There
are a limited number of colors that display the same regardless of
what browser they are displayed in. If Display
web colors only is selected, only "browser safe"
colors will be displayed in the Select
Color dialog.

Close

Pressing the Close button will close
the Select Color dialog and return focus to the edit window.